This Is Your Life
Season 40
28 listed hours · 1952–1961 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
This Is Your Life had Ralph Edwards ambush a guest with their entire biography, tissues mandatory. Invented the life-tribute ambush still used at reunions and award-show montages. Watch it now as live television that felt dangerous and sweet — genuine shock, occasional discomfort, and biography as a surprise party with cameras.
TV Flash files Season 40 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (40; 18 of 20) — 28 listed hours, 1999-11-01–2000-05-29 from “Roger Black” (S40E01) to “Daniel O'Donnell” (S40E28). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S40E01 Roger Black
- S40E02 Hewitt Clark
- S40E03 Martin Kemp
- S40E04 Denise Welch
- S40E05 Rudolph Walker
- S40E06 Martin Jarvis
- S40E07 Stuart Hall
- S40E08 Rita Tushingham
- S40E09 Len Vale-Onslow
- S40E10 Dale Winton
- S40E11 Ian Wright
- S40E12 Marguerite Patten
- S40E13 Eddie Jordon
- S40E14 Dave Lee Travis
- S40E15 Harry Hill
- S40E16 David Vine
- S40E17 John Craven
- S40E18 Richard Dunwoody
- S40E19 Tom Baker
- S40E20 Laurie Holloway
- S40E21 Kay Mellor
- S40E22 Mark Wingett
- S40E23 Christopher Timothy
- S40E24 Suggs
- S40E25 Jason Leonard
- S40E26 Desmond Wilcox
- S40E27 Roger Kendall
- S40E28 Daniel O'Donnell
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